svn commit: trunk/busybox/libbb

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Jun 26 18:00:13 UTC 2006


On Sunday 25 June 2006 16:06, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 25 June 2006 1:34 pm, ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:20:26PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > or you provide a build option like we do with every other utility
> > > [ ] Support all stty speeds
> > >
> > > turned off -> support only standard/common speeds
> > > turned on -> support all speeds
> >
> > Wild idea time: if "all speeds" is too crufty to put in the
> > busybox binary, could it read a mapping file in, say, /etc/stty.speeds ?
> > That may or may not be a size savings, the ascii parsing routine
> > might be bigger than a small binary table.  But at least it gets
> > the platform-dependent stuff out of "our" binary and source code.
>
> I already suggested a way to get the platform-dependent stuff out, while
> giving users the functionality to select nonstandard speeds, without
> bloating the binary.

you forgot the part 'while breaking compatibility with the standard stty 
utility'
-mike
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